Hosea

were unable to thwart the destiny of the one who came to overthrow evil with good.” It is also interesting how the Gryffindor house, and consequently Harry himself, is personified as a lion, just as scripture compares Jesus to a lion in the book of Hosea: “They will follow the LORD; he will roar like a lion.” Similarly, Voldemort is constantly compared to a snake, which is the house mascot of Slytherin, and takes on a snake-like appearance when he is reborn. This mirrors how Satan is often…

Sexual addiction is a disorder that can have a causing distress to people of difference classes of their life and upbringing. Dr. Laaser, book Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction, confirms that people are living a secret life of sexual addiction which some people know they have the problem, but a good amount has no idea what could be happening to them. The strangest thing to this addiction is that it is not happening to one group of people. It does not matter what a person economic…

to discuss a man was born as a lowly slave. He was believed to have been born in Egypt, probably in the area named Goshen, in the northeast Nile delta. His father’s name was Nun. Nun was a slave like his fellow Hebrews. Nun’s son’s birth name was Hosea; today we know this slave by a name that was given to him by his mentor Moses. Nun’s son received his new name of “Joshua” from Moses that means “the Lord is Salvation”; Being born a Hebrew slave in Egypt meant that as a slave Joshua man…

manuscripts, which chapters four to the end of the book are dated to after deliverance from Babylonian, beginning in 538 BC . Micah's prophecy and ministry occurred between 735-686 BC and overlapped with the ministry of two other prophets, Isaiah and Hosea . These prophets wrote during the period of the divided kingdom, when God’s people were…

August 4, 1892 the two bodies of Andrew and Abby Borden were found slain with what appeared to be an axe in their Massachusetts home located in the town of Fall River. The town was a buzz with the thought of who could possibly commit such heinous crime? Speculation focused on the youngest daughter of the two Borden girls, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Andrew Borden a Sunday school teacher and the head of the local hospital’s Fruit and Flower Mission. A seemingly unfit candidate for the axe-wielding…

The Jewish Influence on the Gospel of Matthew The evangelist who wrote the gospel of Matthew was most likely a scribe of Jewish-Christian origins. Historical evidence indicates that the work was written during the decade between eighty and ninety Common Era. By drawing on the gospel of Mark and the unknown “Q” source, the author of the gospel creates a different take on the narrative of Jesus’ life. By altering the narrative structure and using Old Testament references the author created the…

We have so many racial injustices facing us and us our individual contributions cannot contribute to the solutions and we have to wait for a messiah to solve them or so it seems. We’ve had the messiahs the likes of Martin Luther King Jr, Fredrick Douglas, Rosa Parks and even Obama. Over 50 years’ black men were allowed to vote but racial injustice hasn’t seemed to come to an end yet. Young black men are still being shot on the streets, most of them are still in prison. At this point, we have to…

The Adaptation of Old Testament Titles by Disciples of Jesus: Evolution through New Eyes In a 2012 letter to my siblings, I informed them that I’d be hiking the 540 mile Camino de Santiago in the north of Spain because I needed to spend time talking to God. I’d lost my nineteen year old son and frankly, I needed some answers. If saints and mystics had heard His voice, then I most certainly deserved to. As I trudged up and down the French Pyrenees and through the eucalyptus forests on the…

In the beginning was the genesis of creation, where had God moved by his spirit to create the Heavens, Earth, and mankind for a companionship with one of his own image. God wanted a relationship based on freewill for the product of true love. But the free will of mankind resulted in the fall from the grace of God. Because of God’s love, we can see the movement of God throughout history to reconcile the relationship between God and mankind back into right standing. The movement shows a trajectory…

DISCERNING GOD IN THE CREED Believing Three Ways in One God: A Reading of the Apostles’ Creed, by Nicholas Lash, London: S.C.M. Press, 1992. Believing Three Ways in One God Prof. Lash begin his reflections on the Apostles’ Creed by explaining the attitude toward the articles. He defined the appropriate attitude “Amen” as a fundamental reflection about God’s work from the beginning, present, and future. For the time being, it is enough to make a general point that unity or identity of…